gun barrel

plural gun barrels

1. The barrel of a gun.

   The gun barrel, whether forged, rolled, or drawn, is known technically as a tube.

   1907, William Wellington Greener, The Gun and Its Development, page 242

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   The current condemnation criteria for cracking in gun barrels is stated in the applicable technical manual regarding serviceability of Naval gun barrels as being the existence of any crack equal or greater than 3 inches for monobloc barrels.

   1990, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Review of the Department of the Navy's Investigation Into the Gun Turret Explosion Aboard the U.S.S. "Iowa", page 79

   As a result MAVAG machine tools normally engaged in manufacturing 40mm gun barrels were employed to bore out and rifle 40mm 51-calibre anti-tank gun barrels to be mounted on copies of the German carriage.

   2013, Terry Gander, The Bofors Gun, page 114

2. abbreviationclippingClipping of gun barrel tank.